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This discussion about fuel issues in high performance engines is scaring
the begeezus out of me.  I've been planning to go with the IO-550. However,
my interpretation of what I've been reading in the last few LML's is that
100LL will disappear within 10 years and there might not be a reasonably
priced alternative that works in these engines.  This seems to suggest that
buying an IO-550 a couple years from now would be very risky indeed.  On
the other side of the issue, I see high performance planes being built,
sold, even planned with these engines (Lancairs, Bonanzas, Mooney's, the
future higher HP Cirrus, the future Columbia, etc.), which suggests either
that the market hasn't figured this out, that people don't care that much
about the cost of fuel, or that people have confidence that a solution will
be worked out.

I know that it's impossible to forecast the future, but I'm wondering what
folks with knowledge about fuel and engines think about buying (or planning
to buy two years from now) an engine that currenlty runs only on 100 octane
fuel.

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